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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Sales Representative - Inside Sales Representative Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Jun 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance, location amenities & facilities are very nice.

Cons

Compensation is absolutely awful. Performance metrics are based on ridiculously unrealistic goals that management uses to keep yearly pay raises for top performers low (about 1-2% each year). Compensation plan changes each year, is very difficult to understand and even more difficult to track. Management reserves the right to increase yearly sales goal at anytime! This is not a true sales job but more of a glorified customer service role where you are bringing in massive profits for the corporation with very little personal income return. Leadership is focused solely on shareholder value, profit and manipulating pay plans to avoid paying commissions to reps.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

If you're stuck in the Greenville area for some unfortunate reason, it's a job.

Cons

This place is functionally a mafia. The same rotating cast of "old head" people that have been at the site for decades watches each other's backs, and overworks everyone else. God help you if you're actually capable or smart, because they will overload you as much as possible, while ensuring that they, and their pals, do as little as possible. They really have no concept of capacity management at all. There is no math, metrics, or even mild logic that goes in to how they define R&R or distribute work. No one really knows how to do anything at all. Things that sound simple, like shipping a sample for instance.. Well, clear your afternoon. It doesn't help that all of their systems are completely antiquated. I should also note that you won't get any support on anything really, from training to execution. No one wants to be here, and it's so obvious. The place looks and feels like a prison because it is. It doesn't even pay that well compared to other pharma companies! That barbed wire isn't there to keep people out, it's to keep them in.

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